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#Macintosh

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Electrotopia⚡️

By designing the icons for the 1984 #macintosh Susan Kare added a much needed personal touch to the computer industry.

Her icons were incredibly descriptive given they were just 32 × 32 pixels, and at that resolution she may also have been paid the most money-per-pixel of any digital artist in history! (I hear apple did pay her well)

Happy #MARCHintosh

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Dave🌱

Another week later to get the 45° filter variant. Since I could only find (reasonably priced) adhesive variants shipped to where I live, I thought I'd try to see if I could actually get it to stick reasonably well. However, as mentioned before, I totally lack the skills (and tools!) to do this reasonably well, so the result was.. abysmal. So many bubbles! Who needs Marine Aquarium when you've got me slapping on this bad boy. Yikes.
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing

Photo showing the process of sticking on the new polarizing filter from right to left, with the left-hand side still unattached. A clean cloth is laying on top of the screen that I was using to apply (gentle) pressure when attempting to remove all the bubbles while attaching the filter.
Photo showing the new polarizing filter attached with a bunch of substantially sized bubbles and streaks showing. This attempt utterly failed.
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Dave🌱

With that success under my belt, I felt hopeful. The next step was to find out the polarizing filter's orientation, as that varies by display. I wasn't able to find this online for this specific model, so I thought I'll just order a few in the obvious orientation choices. Easy.
I initially didn't order the 45 degrees variant, because I thought; surely it's not 45 degrees, right? That'd be a silly number.
Right?
It was 45 degrees. 🤦
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing

Photo showing the PowerBook's bare display turned on, with a polarizing filter loosely standing in front of it. The number "45°" is hand written in the top left hand side of the filter (on its protective film)
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Dave🌱

But I digress.. the residue has to go, and no amount of alcohol was doing anything to it. I found this recommendation for a certain cleaning liquid designed for this very purpose, so I ordered that and gave it a try. To my surprise, it worked amazingly well.
I put two paper towels on the display, drenched these in the liquid, let it sit for a bit, and then wiped everything off. That's it, super simple. The screen looks gorgeous!
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing

Photo of a white bottle called "Polarizer Glue Remover" with the number 8222 alongside it, held in my hand, and with the PowerBook's display seen laying in the blurry background.
Photo of two soaked paper towel papers laying on top of the display.
Photo of the bare display, now perfectly clean of glue residue.
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Dave🌱

And the smell! Don't get me started on the smell. I did this in front of an open window wearing a mask, but still had to walk away. Just the act of removing the film awakened this positively vile chemical stench that just can't be right.
Kind of terrifying we're normally sitting in front of this (while warm from being powered on!). I wonder if this stuff slowly seeps out too over the years? Yikes.
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing

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Dave🌱

I mention scary because have you ever tried to apply a screen protector to a phone display? Yeah, well, I suck at that. This would be that, but bigger *and* required removing the old polarizing filter without, you know, destroying the display in the process. I know what I'm doing, I lie to myself.
Anywho, in for a penny.. Fortunately the filter came off fairly easily. But by golly did it leave a *ton* of glue residue behind. Hoboy.
#MARCHintosh #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C #RetroComputing

Photo of several ripped pieces of the old polarizing filter laying on a wooden surface with thick glue residue apparent on them.
Photo of the bare display module of the PowerBook with its polarizing filter removed, with a whole bunch of glue residue left behind.
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Dave🌱

Even though I completed this particular challenge a few months ago, I hadn't shared about it yet; Restoring the display of my #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #5300C suffering from vinegar syndrome.
This was the "scariest" #RetroComputing project I have tackled yet, especially as the 5300C is one big brittle plastic design disaster. Even just *glancing* at it has parts snap off and explode left and right 😅

But, I digress. Here's what we were dealing with.
#MARCHintosh

Photo of the display of a PowerBook 5300C laying flat on a wooden surface, with sunlight reflecting off of the display that highlights a big scratch looking defect on the display. This is what is often referred to as the vinegar effect, and is the result of the glue used to keep the screen's polarizing filter attached becoming too old and starting to go. There are some sharp lines that almost appear as if the screen has been cut by a knife, surrounded by some rough looking bubbly surface. The rest of the display still looks good, but this problem will keep expanding once it starts, so it's only a matter of time before the rest of the display ends up looking similarly.
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vga256

as a little #marchintosh gift to my LC 475, i just received an After Dark module i've lusted for since i was 13 years old: More After Dark

when i was in junior high school, the biggest losers of our grade - including myself - all packed into a tiny office in the school band room during our lunch hour

the "band office" had a Macintosh LC II on the desk, which was *supposed* to be for students learning how to use Band-in-a-Box MIDI software. in the six years i spent in that school, i never once saw a student use it

what we were after was, instead, Lunatic Fringe: a thoughtful riff on Continuum (or perhaps, Sinistar) that would load randomly using the After Dark randomizer module.

it took 30+ years for me to figure out that Lunatic Fringe wasn't a standard AD module and came in its own pack with 24 other awesome modules.

it finally arrived today 😻

The box of Berkeley Systems' More After Dark, showing a half dozen of its new modules, including Lunatic Fringe, Dominoes, Fish! among many others. It is the Macintosh System 6.x+ version.
The contents of the More After Dark box, from top-left, to bottom left, clockwise: - The More After Dark Manual - The After Dark 2.0 manual - After Dark 2.0 and More After Dark diskettes - After Dark T-Shirt Offer and mailing envelope, unused. - The After Dark Collection catalogue, showing various t-shirts and other nerdophilia.
The spine of the More After Dark box, showing the greatest cat who ever lived, Lunatic Fringe, and the lawnmower man.
A screenshot of the Lunatic Fringe bestiary, shown during the screensaver's "attract mode". It shows the various enemies and powerups found in the game.
#BigBoxGames#macintosh#vintageApple
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Telmo 🦕

🔥 Monitor upgrade time! 🔥

This screen is an absolute embarrassment sitting next to the mighty Quadra 700. I need to replace it with something that at least doesn’t make me cringe every time I look at it.

The catch? It must be an LCD—I just don’t have the space (or back strength) for a proper CRT. Any suggestions from the display connoisseurs out there?

#MARCHintosh#apple#macintosh
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